Linux Will Finally Stop Flickering With AMD Stoney Ridge On 4K Displays

[cjcox]

I was just talking to someone yesterday about how you geared up for the new "instruction" in the new Intel CPU and it seems to always release and then get disabled and not fixed sometimes for one or two generations. Sigh... CPUs and QC.... not best friends yet.

[Mario Junior]

AMD has no drivers. 😬

[intelfx]

oh well, don't quite know what is wrong, so let's disable a major features, ... amazing fix, not

You are assuming that hardware is infallible. It's not.
Sometimes the hardware just doesn't get the feature right (more often than not with early generations and early adopters). The driver then has no other options other than to avoid that feature and act like it's not there.

[Saverios]

+1 for the horrible pun!

[rene]

oh well, don't quite know what is wrong, so let's disable a major features, ... amazing fix, not

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Will Finally Stop Flickering With AMD Stoney Ridge On 4K Displays

For those still running the AMD "Stoney Ridge" mobile APUs from 2016 that were launched aside Bristol Ridge with Excavator-based CPU cores and GCN 1.2 graphics, the Linux kernel has a fix finally for flickering issues when driving a 4K display off the APU...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4K-Fix-AMD-Stoney-Ridge